Shade and curtain bracket.



J. W. WINKLEMAN. SHADE AND CURTAIN BRACKET.

' APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 26, 1909.

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JOHN W. WINKLEMAN, OF CANTON, OHIO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1911.

Application filed November 26, 1909. Serial N 0. 529,890.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. VVINKLEMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade and CurtainBrackets, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to brackets for supporting shade sticks andcurtain poles on windows; and the object of the improvements is tocombine a holder for a shadestick with a holder for a curtain-pole insuch a manner that certain desirable adjustments of the stick withreference to the pole and the window-frame can be made at will, withoutdisturbing either the curtain pole, or the bracket as a whole.

Further features of the invention relate to the construction of thebrackets in all their parts out of sheetmetal and standard rods, boltsand nuts, so that a complete bracket can be made by stamping, punchingand forging and without any machine work whatever.

These objects and purposes of the invention are attained by thepreferred embodiment of the same set forth in the accompanying drawing,forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a pair ofbrackets on a window, showing a shade stick and a curtain pole on thewindow frame; Fig. 2, a section of the same on line 2-2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3,a cross section of one bracket on line 83, Figs. 1 and 2; Fig. i, aperspectiveview of the several parts of the bracket separated on linesfor assembling, and Fig. 5, a detached perspective view of oneshade-stick holder provided with an ordinary journal bearing.

Similar numerals refer throughout the drawing.

The body of each bracket is composed of two similar plates ofsheet-metal 1 and 1 secured together by rivets 2 and having laterallybent securing flanges 3 on the inner ends provided with the screwapertures 4 for the heads of the securing screws 5. The body plates arebent laterally apart intermediate their ends to form the Vertical barrel6, which is open at its upper and lower ends and is preferablyrectangular in cross section; from which barrel at least one of theplates is extended forward to form the arm 7 for holding the curtainpole, which arm is preferably provided with the semicircular to similarparts notch 8 in which the curtain pole 9 is adapted to rest in theusual manner.

The shade holders 10 and 10 are made with the preferably round rod stemportions 11 and 11 and the radial shanks 12 and 12 which shanks are bentsubstantially at right angles to the stem portion and are preferablyforged flat and have the shade bearings 13 and 13 punched in the freeends thereof. One of these bearings 13 is an ordinary journal bearingfor the fixed pivot 1% usually provided on or in one end of the shadestick 15, and the other bearing 13 is angular in form to fit the angularend 16 of the rotatable spring-pivot l4: usually provided in the otherend of the shade stick. v

The yoke 17 is provided in the barrel 6 of the bracket-body, and ispreferably made of a strip of sheet-metal bent in the form of aninverted U, and the cap 18 with the de-' pending flanges 19 on the sideedges, is provided on the upper end of the barrel; and the apertures 20and 21- are provided in the upper end of the yoke and in the cap,through which apertures the inverted bolt 22 is passed from belowupward, with its head 23 in the yoke and the thumb nut 24 above the cap,by means of which bolt and thumb nut the yoke is adapted to be drawnupward.

The stem of the shade-holder is entered through the apertures 25 and 26which are provided in the side walls of the bracket barrel and the yoke,wherein it is adapted to be secured by turning the thumb nut on the boltto draw the yoke upward, to clamp the stem between the lower edges ofthe yoke aperture and the upper edges of the barrel apertures; whichapertures are preferably made in the form of vertically elongateddiamonds, so that the stem is more securely wedged between theconverging edges thereof.

In use, the shade-stick is mounted in the bearings provided in theshanks 12 and 12 of the holders, by an endwise adjustment of the stemsof the holders in the clamping apertures, which is permitted byloosening the thumb-nuts of the clamping bolts, after which the holderis clamped in position by tightening the nuts; and it is evident thatthe relative position of the shade stick with reference to thewindow-frame and the curtain'pole, may be changed at will, by rotatingthe shade-stick holder on its stem, which may be done by loosening theclamping bolt, and that the shade-stick will be held in any desiredposition of such adj ustment by again tightening the bolt.

It is generally desirable to locate the shade-stick quite close to thewindow frame 27 and when the upper window sash 28 is slightly lowered,as during the night time, for the purpose of ventilation, the shadestickis preferably swung downward ad jacent to the window frame and below thelintel 29 thereof, as shown by full lines in Fig. 2; while in the daytime, the shadestick is preferably swung upward adjacent to the windowframe above the lintel, thus completely shutting out the light, as shownby broken lines in the same figure. And in general, the shade-stick canbe rotated on the stems of the holders as pivots to any desired positionwithin the radius of the holder-shanks, without disturbing the curtainor its pole, and without removing the bracket from the window-frame.

I claim:

1. A bracket having a body portion composed of two sheet-metal platesriveted together and being bent to form securing flanges 011 one end anda barrel intermediate the ends, an inverted U-shaped sheet-metal yoke inthe barrel and a sheet-metal cap on the barrel, there beingcorresponding apertures in the sides of the yoke and the barrel, ashade-stick holder including a transverse stem adapted to rotate in theapertures, and a bolt through the yoke and the cap adapted to clamp thestem in the apertures.

2. A bracket having a body-portion composed of two sheet-metal platesriveted to gether and being bent to form securing flanges on one end anda barrel intermediate the ends, an inverted U-shaped sheet-metal yoke inthe barrel and a sheet-metal cap on the barrel, there beingcorresponding diamond-shaped apertures in the sides of the yoke and thebarrel, a shade-stick holder including a transverse stem adapted torotate in the apertures, and a bolt through the yoke and the cap adaptedto clamp the stem in the apertures.

JOHN V.

WVitnesses:

CHAS. E. TINKLER, HARRY FREASE.

VINKLEMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

